Anyone built a stock shuttle in 0.17?

[mattig89ch]

I'm trying to build a shuttle that looks and behaves just like the real thing in 0.17.

I was curious to see if anyone had managed this?

2 solid boosters on the sides of a giant fuel tank, attached to the under belley of the shuttle. I can get something that looks remarkably similar to the shuttle, but it always tips over just after launch. quite often it does a nose dive into the ground.

mind you, I'm using no mods. just the stock parts.

[Vostok]

Yes, I have. It needs a touch of RCS once it's out of the atmosphere, but it's fairly well balanced and can get into and return from orbit fairly easily.

The craft file is here.

Apologies for the awful image

EDIT: Doesn't use solid boosters however. Nowhere near enough power

[mattig89ch]

cool! so instead of solid boosters that uses fuel rockets on the sides? and does that use the 5 rockets on the base of the shuttle itself?

[Vostok]

no, it just uses one single vectoring thrust engine, embedded in the fuselage. I tried three, but it threw the centre of thrust awry, so I kept it as one. It also has RCS tanks built inside the fuselage with aplacement bug or something

[mattig89ch]

yea, see thats my problem. I can get a shuttle up with the single engine on the back. but I'm trying for the real thing, the tricoupler holding the 3 engines, and the 2 side mouting engines next to the tail fin. I'd be willing to swap out the solid boosters with fuel ones, but it doesn't seem to matter.

Edit: well I downloaded the rocket above. That seems like cheating to me, using the main fuel tank as its own rocket...I'm going to keep trying to get a shuttle in orbit w/out relying on the main fuel tank for thrust. I have started to use single engine shuttles, I can get them into the air, but not out of atmo...

Edited October 4, 2012 by mattig89ch